Reproduction, discipline, inequality: Critiquing East-Asian developmentalism through a strategic-relational examination of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI:10.1177/14680181211059971

Joe Greener, Eve. Yeo

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Abstract

The five ‘developmentalist’ welfare states of East Asia (South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan) have been presented as successful projects of economic progress, positively aligning citizen-interests with business objective. Utilising Jessop’s Strategic-Relational Approach (SRA), we analyse the Central Provident Fund (CPF), Singapore’s ‘forced savings’ social policy which organises housing, healthcare, education and retirement. Through a myriad of eligibilities/ineligibilities, Singapore’s CPF administers desired social behaviours while sustaining a series of inequalities supporting certain classed and gendered interests over others. Our analysis breaks down the CPF into three social relational orientations: (1) heteronormative familial responsiblisation, (2) labour market activation and (3) class reproduction. The article highlights the function of CPF in institutionalising conservative and pro-market political interests. CPF reproduces material inequalities and fashions behaviours conducive with the dominant accumulation strategy while discouraging those which are not, privileging some interests over others.

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再生产、纪律、不平等：通过对新加坡中央公积金的战略关系考察对东亚发展主义的批判

东亚五个“发展主义”福利国家（韩国、新加坡、台湾、香港和日本）被列为经济进步的成功项目，使公民利益与商业目标积极一致。利用Jessop的战略关系方法（SRA），我们分析了中央公积金（CPF），这是新加坡的“强制储蓄”社会政策，它组织了住房、医疗、教育和退休。通过无数的不合格/不合格，新加坡的CPF管理着想要的社会行为，同时维持着一系列支持某些阶级和性别利益的不平等。我们的分析将CPF分解为三个社会关系取向：（1）非规范的家庭责任，（2）劳动力市场激活和（3）阶级再生产。文章强调了中央公积金在将保守和亲市场的政治利益制度化方面的作用。CPF再现了物质上的不平等，并形成了有利于占主导地位的积累战略的行为，同时劝阻了那些不利于的行为，使一些利益凌驾于其他利益之上。

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Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.20

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期刊介绍： Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.